Editorials

To the average person just about everything—except, perhaps, things like desert mirages—is accepted as more or less "real.

Risk-free environment

"One cannot live in a risk-free environment; it does not exist," says the head of a prestigious panel of the National Academy of Sciences.

Exposing the fallacies of racism

Racism, like sickness, sin, and death, is a variant on corporeal claims about man.
The adage "Stone walls do not a prison make" may include a message beyond the traditional: that there is an action of thought which cannot be imprisoned.

God-impelled unification

This is a marvelous age to understand that man is spiritual instead of material.

The family and civilization

Do you ever think of yourself as a civilization builder?

Fear—faced and outfaced

A friend, an airline pilot, says he regularly undergoes training in a flight simulator programmed to reproduce various emergency situations.

Man's predictable future

Yes, man's destiny is known.

First, the vision

It is fitting that the flag of our country should fly here in honor of those men who, inspired by a vision of lonely lands made fruitful, conceived this great work and of those others whose genius and labor made that vision a reality.
Most people spend perhaps a third of their lives in a very dark, very confined, very small geographical area—their beds.

Love and politics

For many, Mary Baker Eddy gave a new approach to politics when she answered the question "What are your politics?
Events can be made to serve the overcoming of fear, rather than the building of it.